M A R X I S T  L I T E R A R Y  G R O U P

I N S T I T U T E  O N  C U L T U R E  A N D  S O C I E T Y

C A L L  FOR  P A P E R S
 
Annual Meeting
June 10 - 17 2000 
Georgetown University
Washington, DC

Special topic for 2000: Marx and the Millennium

Panel topics may include:

Marx and the Millennium
After Identity Politics--A New Left?
Aesthetic Theory/ Theories of Value
World Literature and Cinema
Intellectual Activism
Postmarxism and Remarxification
"Development," the Debt, Reparations
Tribality and Primitive Communism
Global--Not!
Actually Existing Social Movements
Seattle and A16--Anticapitalism or Infantile Disorder?
Free Mumia--Race, Gender, Class and... Philadelphia
Global Gay Formations and Local Homosexualities
Revolution.com
Regional Modernities/ Postmodernisms
Global Culture vs. Civil Society
The Eighteenth Brumaire of George W. Bush
And others

Panels this year will include:

The Legacies of Michael Sprinker
The History and Future of the MLG
Academic Activism
The Privatization of Citizenship
Postcolonial Feminism/ Feminist Postcolonialism
Transnational Feminist Cultural Studies
Critical Race Studies
Borders and Immigration
A Reading Group on Paul Smith's Millennial Dreams. 
(Discount copies will be available from the publisher; the author may be
in attendance)
The Annual Marx Reading Group
A Graduate Student Workshop on Dissertation Drafts and Job Possibilities

Invited groups include:

Jobs with Justice
Justice for Janitors
Amnesty International
Human Rights Watch
East Timor Action Network
Peace Brigades
50 Years is Enough
United Students Against Sweatshops
Institute for Policy Studies
And Many Others

Folks who have mentioned interest in attending include:

Theodore Allen, Giovanni Arrighi, Crystal Bartolovich, Robert Brenner, Clint Burnham, Leslie Christiansen, Rita Clark, Anne Cubilie, Jamie Owen Daniel, Rich Daniels, Mike Davis, Richard Dienst, Lisa Frank, Lalitha Gopalan, Rich Hancuff, Barbara Harlow, Rosemary Hennessy, Doug Henwood, Mike Hill, Christopher Hitchens, Fredric Jameson, Gautam Kundu, Neil Larsen, Wahneema Lubiano, Courtney Malony, Noreen O'Connor, Ricardo Ortiz, You-me Park, Mustapha Pasha, Donald Pease, Janice Radway, Sangeeta Ray, Rachel Claire Reid, Andrew Ross, Roger Rouse,  Modhumita Roy, Matt Ruben, Geoff Sauer, Henry Schwarz, Amy Shuster, Paul Smith, Christine So, Ron Strickland, Matthew Tinckom, Alan Wald, Orrin Wang, Jeffrey Williams, Steve Wurtzler. and about fifty others.

Information on housing and transportation will follow shortly.  

Check our website: http://eserver.org/mlg 

Please send proposals for papers or panels to both of  the co-organizers, Jamie Owen Daniel and Henry Schwarz.. Deadline 1 May, 2000. Much sooner appreciated. We will try to accomodate as many panels and papers as possible, but preference will be given to card-carrying members of the MLG. 

Jamie Owen Daniel
English Department
University of Illinois-Chicago
Chicago, IL  60607-7116
(708) 383-9266
(312) 413-1005 fax
jdaniel@uic.edu 

All other queries on housing, transportation, etc.:
Henry Schwarz
English Department
Georgetown University
Washington, DC 20057
(202) 687-7647
(202) 687-5445 fax
schwarh1@gusun.georgetown.edu